War on Terror as a series of Unix shell interactions
From Boing Boing we have a renactment of the first round in the War on Terror, Unix-style. And I'm so glad they spelled Unix right, not all in caps (it's not an acronym! - that's one of my pet geek peeves). Anyway, I'm trying to think how one could continue it, but they might have stopped just in time (avoiding the Saturday Night Live Syndrome where every joke just gets driven into the ground). Ooh, but one funny thing might be something like:
$ cd Iraq/reasons_to_invade
$ ls
oil
$ ln -s oil democracy
$ ln -s oil WMDs
$ ln -s oil regime _change
$ ./saddam_connected_to_911
./saddam_connected_to_911: Command not found.
ha ha ha. there's all sorts of other sub-jokes possible. like maybe the media could somehow be used as a compiler/linker to build the binary called "concensus." etc etc.
but, like i said, it's probably gone on enough. or, wait, too far, now. i'm sure there's leftie geeks all over the world furiously thinking up more, but i can say i've spent enough time on it.
(thanx josé)
update: erp! i found the original blog where this was posted. They take it a lot farther, especially the commentors. still funny though, with some of the same ideas I just had above, basically.
Posted by steev at Julio 25, 2005 02:24 PM